Curricula

This cookie making activity is a simulation to show how power is distributed in the United States and beyond. Participants are broken into more powerful and less powerful groups to cook, and then receive unequal numbers of cookies before everything is processed in the discussion.… Read more

In this hands-on activity, participants walk up to a participant-chosen by the group leader-and offer their balloons. The person they walk up to either pops the balloon or accepts the balloon based on arbitrary criteria known only to the chosen participant.… Read more

This simulation activity uses the example of workers in a chair factory to show how the owner-worker relationship operates within the capitalist system. It encourages participants to challenge their thinking about the inequity that comes out of capitalism, and to think about winners and losers.… Read more

In this activity, participants make observations on the characteristics of a lemon. Various observations and scenarios are staged to study various individual and group behaviors. Favorite… Read more

This opening activity is an accessible way to get young people talking about prejudice and stereotypes through looking at different kinds of clothing, and thinking about what kind of people might wear each set of clothing. Favorite… Read more

This is a multi-day activity that allows participants to experience the history of segregated voting rights. The final decision leads to a fun activity at the end of the week, and to a discussion about who holds voting power in America Favorite… Read more

This activity allows participants to fully engage in a “blaming the victim” situation. Participants form groups and build mobiles on an agreed upon theme, based on unequal distribution of materials. Favorite… Read more